smithaa02 - 1:29 pm on Jun 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

Spunkle...some are speculating that WPMU bounced back perhaps in large part to the media attention it got which in turn got it be be manually reviewed and 'whitelisted' by Cutts.

If this is the case, then we can't say for certain that removing the links helped WPMU bounced back.